Wangari Maathai Quotes

I just do my day job and go home and plant trees.

On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree

EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.

Today is Earth Day. The way I see it, as humans the very least we can do is recycle. A lot of recycling is going on this year. For example, Bushes and Clintons.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

I'm adamant about recycling in my house, and I'm always making sure to turn off the lights.

I try to be eco-friendly in every possible way.

Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook to see which planets wished it a happy Earth Day.

Celebrate Earth Day every day.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day

Shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I mean, what are our options?

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.